ZS
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Yemeni serial killer from 5th Century
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
(Yemen)
Death:
(Aden)
The details
Biography
Zu Shenatir was a Yemeni serial killer, known as one of the first recorded serial killers.
He was born sometime in the 5th century in the Himyarite Kingdom (modern-day Yemen), and lived in Aden
Reportedly a wealthy man, and lived in Aden, the modern capital of Yemen.
He lured young boys into his home with the promise of food and money, stripped them naked and sodomized them. He then killed them by throwing them naked out of an upper story window of his home. He was only stopped when a would-be victim, named by one book as Zerash, stabbed him in the anus